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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 14 - PADOVA

Telephone

049 8276565

She is Professor of Psychological Counseling for the Inclusion of Disabilities and Social Discomfort and of Career Construction and Career Counselling at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology.
She was Delegate of the Rector for Inclusion and Disability from November 2015 to September 2021.
Coordinator of the 'Inclusion and Social Justice' Working Group within the Universities Network for Sustainable Development (RUS) since January 2020.
Expert member of the Crui Orientation Commission since February 2022.
Member of the working group of the Forum Inequality and Diversity for contrast actions.
Member of the Minister of University working group 'Contrasting Inequality'.
She is Director of the Laboratory for Research and Intervention in Vocational Designing and Career Counselling.
Director of Advanced Training Course “Telling the truth. How to inform promoting an inclusive society” (2020/21 and 2021/22), and “Digital literacy at school: promoting the passion for truth and inclusion” (2021/22), Director of the post-graduate Master Course “Inclusion and social innovation” (2018/2019), Director of Master Courses: “Coaching for guidance and school and work inclusion” 2015/16; “Life Design and Career Counseling” 2012/13; “Guidance Psychology” 2010/11.
She is a member of the teaching board of the Ph.D. program Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions. She is the President of the Degree Course Social, Labour and Communication Psychology.
She received an award in 2012 from Society of Counseling Psychology SCP International Section (APA) - International Scholar, in 2013 from CDQ (Career Development Quarterly) for Outstanding Article of 2012, in 2015 from Emerald Literati Network Awards for Outstanding Author Contribution.
Member of Executive Board:
- President of the Italian Society on Vocational Guidance (SIO)
- European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling
Member of Editorial Board:
- Editor of International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance
- Associate Editor of the Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities
- Journal of Vocational Behavior
- Journal of Career Development
Coordination Activities in the Italian Network University training in Vocational Guidance.
Member of Steering Committee in European Projects:
- Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling (Erasmus NICE; 2009-2012
- Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling - program2 (Erasmus NICE2; 2013-2015
- Scientific Coordinator of the European Doctoral Programme in Career Guidance and Counselling (2014-2017)
- Counselling for Refugee and Migrant Integration into the Labour Market (CMinaR; 2016-2019)
Participation in international research groups:
- Life Design International Research Group
- The Career Adaptability International Collaborative
- International Hope Research Team - IHRT
- University Network for Innovation in Guidance Erasmus-NICE
- Courage research group
- Special Task Group 'Globalization' of Division 17 APA
- Project UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme (Scientific Coordinator for Italy) UNESCO Chair on Life Long Guidance and Counseling
Memberships:
- International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance
- International Section of Counseling Psychology, Division 17, American Psychological Association
- Society for Vocational Psychology
- Counseling Psychology, Division 16 of the International Ass. of Applied Psychology

Notices

Research lines for PhD students:
a) As regards counseling and career counselling, research efforts are directed toward the study of variables and processes in Life Design model, setting up of instruments, planning of interventions programs and their verification:
- Analysis of the relationship between adaptability, orientation to the future, hope and optimism in adolescents, young adults and people with vulnerability;
- Development and efficacy verification of interventions aimed at promoting Life Design contruction in children and adolescents;
- Analysis of the concept of work, decent work, courage;
- Development of qualitative and quantitative procedures;
- Interventions of career counseling and career education.
b) As regards psychology of disability, research efforts are directed toward inclusion processes of individuals with disability:
- Hope, optimism, resilience, courage in parents and their children;
- Social skills and inclusion processes;
- Analysis of the attitudes of children, adolescents, parents and teachers towards inclusion;
- Analysis of the attitudes of employers and colleagues towards work inclusion;
- Development and eficacy verification of programs to increase positive attitudes, solidarity and altruism;
- Career counseling for persons with disability;
- Positive psychology, counseling and disability.

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 10:30 to 12:30
    at Via Venezia 14, sede del Fisppa
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Teachings

Publications

- Santilli, S., Di Maggio, I., Ginevra, M. C., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (2020). Looking to the future and university in an inclusive and sustainable way: A career Intervention for high school students. Sustainability, 12(21), 9048.
- Di Maggio, I., Ginevra, M. C., Santilli, S., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (2020). The role of career adaptability, the tendency to consider systemic challenges to attain a sustainable development, and hope to improve investments in higher education. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1926.
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021) The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future goals in refugees, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2020.1865874
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Valbusa, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). Teachers’ attitudes towards students with disabilities: the role of the type of information provided in the students’ profiles of children with disabilities. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1-14.
- Di Maggio, I., Ginevra, M. C., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). Elementary school students’ attitudes towards peers with disabilities: The role of personal and contextual factors. Journal of - Santilli, S., Maggio, I. D., Ginevra, M. C., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (2021). Stories of Courage Among Emerging Adults in Precarious Work. The Career Development Quarterly, 69(3), 248-262.
- Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., & Nota, L. (2021). Italian adolescents’ understandings of globalization. Journal of Adolescence, 89, 128-136.
- Di Maggio, I., Montenegro, E., Little, T. D., Nota, L., & Ginevra, M. C. (2021). Career Adaptability, Hope, and Life Satisfaction: an Analysis of Adults with and Without Substance Use Disorder. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-16.
- Di Maggio, I., Ginevra, M. C., & Nota, L. (2021). The Role of Psychological Capital in Human Service Professionals’ Work Experiences. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 11(3), 639-648.
- Di Maggio, I., Santilli, S., Ginevra, M. C., & Nota, L. (2021). Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Propensity to Cosmopolitanism in Adolescence. Sustainability, 13(15), 8253.
- Santilli, S., Di Maggio, I., Ginevra, M. C., Nota, L. & Soresi, S. (2021). Stories of courage in a group of people with experiences of migration to inclusive and sustainable future. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1007/s10775-021-09495-y
- Ginevra, M. C., Vezzali, L., Camussi, E., Capozza, D., & Nota, L. (2021). Promoting positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities: The role of information and imagined contact. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(6), 1269–1279. doi: 10.1037/edu0000661
- Santilli, S., Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., & Nota, L. (in press). In the Same Boat: An Online Group Career Counseling with a Group of Young Adults in the Time of COVID-19. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance.
- antilli, S., Ginevra, M. C., Di Maggio, I., Nota, L., & Soresi, S. (in press). Construction and validation of “The future is around the corner... what will it hold for us?” scale: An instrument for the inclusive and sustainable development. Journal of european psychology assessment.

Research Area

Research areas
As regards Vocational Psychology and Career Counselling:
- Parents support, adolescents future orientation and investment in education
- Relationships between adaptability, hope, optimism, and time perspective in adults with and without disability;
- Training to increase adaptability, hope and optimism toward the future for children, adolescents and adults;
- Concept of work, courage and career construction;
- Qualitative and quantitative procedures for career counselling;
- Career education inclusion and sustainability.

As regards Psychology of Disability and Inclusion:
- Social skills and inclusion;
- Attitudes towards disability and school inclusion of children, parents and teachers;
- Attitudes towards disability and work inclusion of employer and colleagues;
- Development of programs to increase positive attitudes, solidarity and altruism to favour school and social inclusion;
- Procedures and instruments for career counselling and work inclusion of persons with disability;
- Positive psychology, counselling and disability.

Thesis proposals

Thesis proposals:
- analysis of the relationship between adaptability, future orientation, hope and optimism in adolescents and young adults;
- professional readiness, adaptability, hope, optimism and resilience in adults who are experiencing under-employment and unemployment;
- development and verification of the effectiveness of interventions aimed at promoting professional knowledge and professional design skills in children and adolescents;
- analysis of the concept of work, prestige and professional project;
- hope, optimism, resilience in parents and their children;
- social skills and inclusion processes;
- analysis of the attitudes of children and adolescents, parents and teachers towards school inclusion;
- analysis of employers' and colleagues' attitudes towards work inclusion;
- development and verification of programs to increase positive attitudes, solidarity and altruism;
- positive psychology, counseling and disability;
- future orientation projects focused on inclusion and sustainability;
- tools for analyzing attitudes and propensities to consider aspects of social sustainability;
- promotion, awareness and education projects on social and educational sustainability;
- promotion, awareness and education projects for the construction of inclusive contexts.